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Music Industry Piracy Fears: A Historical Perspective

There is nothing about this old Dead Kennedys cassette single I don’t love. [SB1 via HypeMachine]

LEGO Steampunk City Is Mad Max On Rainbows And Acid

Who says the end of civilization has to be totally drab? Dave DeGobbi’s massive eco-punk crawler city brightens up the post-apocalypse, looking like a Mardi Gras float designed by Master Blaster himself. Degobbi’s epic LEGO sculpture isn’t just some pretty colossus – it has a history, too. Here’s DeGobbi’s description of his crawler town: Crawler…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

‘Lego’ R/C BlockCar: A Knockoff You Can’t Help But Love

108 bricks. 4 wheels. 2 taillights. Questionable plastics that are sure to contain countless carcinogens. Yes, the BlockCar looks to be a fantastic toy. While not an official Lego product, the BlockCar offers the same general idea. You carefully stack bricks onto a motorized platform, crafting the multicolored car of your deepest imagination. Admire it…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A Captain America Casting Rumor, A Doctor Who Script Page, And A Last Airbender TV Spot

Spoiler Monday! There’s another Captain America casting rumor, and Marvel actors talk about appearing in The Avengers. Plus some witty Doctor Who dialogue, Lost set reports and a Last Airbender TV spot. Also: Green Lantern, Crazies, Fringe, Chuck and V. Captain America: Another casting rumor for Cap seems slightly more plausible than some of the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Man and His Pig, A Love Story by the Antiques Roadshow

I like knowing that I live in a world where someone can create a crazy-jawed pig pull toy only to have someone else say, “Yup, mechanical swine is exactly what my life has been missing.” Meme at will. [Extreme Craft via boingboing]

Tech News Mark Wilson

First Official NASA iPhone Game Is Science Fiction

NASA has released their first iPhone game. It’s called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator and, instead of making me happierer than a kid in a candy store wearing a Batman cape, reading the description makes me sad: Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don’t need a driver’s license, but you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Japanese Fashion Designer Uses Cables To Knit Art

I’ve knitted a few scarves in my lifetime, and have a cupboard full of cables, so I’m thinking of whipping up a few winter-warmers like Japanese fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura. Though it doesn’t look nearly as soft as merino wool… He used anything from iPods to LAN cables, power boards and fabrics to create sculptures…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $38.6m to construct. [MSN]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds

It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral’s claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video recording and Flash 10.1 compatibility. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-pre-and-pixi-getting-webos-1-4-video-recording-5468457 It’ll also make the Pre and Pixi slightly faster, and have a few other minor…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

More Fun Than Unfollowing, Now You Can Sh*t On Twitter With the Bird Turd iPhone App

There’s a million and one Twitter apps available for the iPhone, but do any let you do a poo on tweets you dislike? Surprisingly, yes—and here I was thinking teenage roughnecks couldn’t afford an iPhone contract. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-twitter-app-battlemodo-best-and-worst-twitter-a-5135117 Bird Turd turns Twitter into a game, with the official bio of the app explaining “In Bird Turd,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

iPad Video Showing Flash Rendered Perfectly Reappears On Apple Site

I’m sure someone at Apple has scars on their hands from the major wrist-slapping that’s occurred over their video cock-up of the iPad running Flash—but how could they make the same mistake again? When Apple announced the iPad, you may remember some of their promotional videos showed the tablet running Flash on the NY Times…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Buzz Not a Threat To Twitter and Facebook, Instead It’s “Filling a Niche”

Google may be aware they should’ve spent longer testing Buzz, but according to their VP of product management, it doesn’t pose a threat to Twitter and Facebook. Instead, “it’s filling a niche, which is not currently met in the market.” https://gizmodo.com/google-admits-buzz-testing-sucked-and-they-are-very-v-5473660 Bradley Horowitz from Google told eWeek that in addition to not wanting to replace…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Broken Step From Apple’s New York Store On Sale at eBay For $2,500

Answering the age-old question of what to buy a Mac fanboy who has everything, eBay user heylookitskibbe has put a broken step from the 5th Avenue Apple store up for sale with a buy-it-now price of $2,500. The eBay seller says: “They replaced it with a new one after a customer dropped a snapple bottle…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Arne Jacobsen’s AJ Wall Light Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue

Inject some cool ’50s style into your home’s veins, with the Arne Jacobsen reissue of the AJ wall light. First designed in 1956, it was part of the Louis Poulsen range which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The light yellow green color is a new shade for the lamp, but based on the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Two PS3 Slim Models Glimpsed On FCC

Still mashing your thumbs on the original PS3, after the PS3 Slim failed to ignite your fire? Yeah, me too—but unfortunately Sony’s not going to give us love anytime soon, looking at these FCC documents. The two documents don’t detail any of the changes, though it looks like they’re physically similar to the current Slims…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Super-Safe World of 2002 (1981)

The 1981 children’s book World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play accurately predicted the rise of debit cards, but may have overstated how much safer we would be in the futuristic world of 2002. The phrase, “in tomorrow’s world computers will be able to guard over us,” might seem humorous, given our current fears about…

Tech News Matt Novak

Look Into The Future World Of 2084… If Hitler Won

Explore the future world that would have been had Hitler won in WW2 with a heap of concept art from Watchmen of Hellgate, plus meet Disney’s first Bollywood Superhero, Zokkomon! Watchmen Of Hellgate Fantastic Films International has a collection of crazy films all in the production stages, and Watchmen of Hellgate caught our eye (via…

Movies Meredith Woerner

5 Reasons Why NBC Might Not Cancel Heroes

Heroes ended its fourth season with dismal ratings and weak reviews, but NBC still might bring the troubled mutant soap opera back for one more year. Here are five reasons why. The Magic 100 Giving the show one final full season – or, perhaps, two shorter seasons – would let Heroes make it past 100…

Television Graeme McMillan

Cheap, Flexible Microfiber Solar Cells and the Future’s Energy-Producing Clothing

Caltech researchers may have unlocked the holy grail of gadget-powering clothing, thanks to a recent discovery that could eventually produce cheap, flexible solar cell microfibers. The team, led by Harry Atwater, says the bendy solar cells use just 1% of the silicon needed by a solar cell with the same output. Additionally, the bendy cell…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Locus Magazine Unveils 2009 Recommended Reading List

The February issue of stalwart scifi literature magazine Locus reveals their staff’s picks for the best science fiction prose of 2009. Which of your favorite books made the voluminous final cut? Here are Locus’ picks for Best Novel and Best First Novels. Note the inclusion of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Wind-Up Girl, which incidentally was io9…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Music Industry Piracy Fears: A Historical Perspective

LEGO Steampunk City Is Mad Max On Rainbows And Acid

‘Lego’ R/C BlockCar: A Knockoff You Can’t Help But Love

A Captain America Casting Rumor, A Doctor Who Script Page, And A Last Airbender TV Spot

Man and His Pig, A Love Story by the Antiques Roadshow

First Official NASA iPhone Game Is Science Fiction

Japanese Fashion Designer Uses Cables To Knit Art

Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds

More Fun Than Unfollowing, Now You Can Sh*t On Twitter With the Bird Turd iPhone App

iPad Video Showing Flash Rendered Perfectly Reappears On Apple Site

Google Buzz Not a Threat To Twitter and Facebook, Instead It’s “Filling a Niche”

Broken Step From Apple’s New York Store On Sale at eBay For $2,500

Arne Jacobsen’s AJ Wall Light Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue

Two PS3 Slim Models Glimpsed On FCC

The Super-Safe World of 2002 (1981)

Look Into The Future World Of 2084… If Hitler Won

5 Reasons Why NBC Might Not Cancel Heroes

Cheap, Flexible Microfiber Solar Cells and the Future’s Energy-Producing Clothing

Locus Magazine Unveils 2009 Recommended Reading List

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